International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) President Ulf Mehrens has signed a letter of intent with Wilfried Lemke, the United Nations’ special adviser on sport for development and peace, to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) secretary general Maureen Orchard is confident more African nations will compete in the women’s wheelchair basketball qualification tournament for future Paralympic Games after Algeria became the continent’s first-ever representatives at Rio 2016.

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Fact of the day

During the Italian rowing team's celebration after winning the quadruple sculls at Seoul 1988, David Tizzano was thrown into the water and lost his Olympic gold medal on the muddy bottom of the Han River. A South Korean diver, working as a security guard at the regatta course, retrieved it after a 50-minute search. Eight years later, in Atlanta, Tizzano won a second gold medal in the double scull.

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